I feel like it might have been a bad idea to hand the world over to sociopaths

Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h ago

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

“Dad, since you’ve been alive a long time can you tell me…”

“We will go through every file.” This is the promise on which our nation should be rebuilt. No one slinking back to the shadows, no one quietly retiring. Accountability for all.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 6d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

Who do we love? Librarians. Forever and always.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last wk.

The Missouri AG threatened Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia with total defunding and investigations if they read books with LGBTQ+ themes to kids in a Pride story hour. They did so anyway. Our latest story from s. Baum of one library's defiance against an oppressive Republican regime.

Cleaning out some boxes & found an envelope of very old story ideas. After reading through, I tossed them all in the garbage. It felt freeing. Some ideas turn stale. As long as you stay interested in the world, you’ll find new ones. I don’t have faith in much, but I do have faith in that.

If you had invested $1,000 in SpaceX on June 30th you'd still have a cool $675 today

THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM arrives in a UK edition this summer. @waterstones.bsky.social is running a deal for preorders on the book. Get 25% off with the code SUMMER26. I love the cover for this one (as I’ve loved the covers for every edition of this book). UK readers, I hope you enjoy.

Good morning. Today, let's talk about 1800s feminist ghost stories. www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

7/21/26 — BRIAN KEENE

Longtime readers will remember that S.T. Joshi thinks I am emblematic of everything that is wrong with modern horror fiction (although, to be fair, he also contends that I had some help from Joe Hill,...

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TUESDAY - 7/21 - 5-8:30PM If you live in the NY/NJ/CT area and love horror fiction then be at the Twisted Spine bookstore in Brooklyn tomorrow. Come see a murderer’s row of amazing writers. Get your books signed. Listen to some great panels. Hang out with cool people. See you there.

Christopher Golden@cgolden.bsky.social · 3w ago

Next Tuesday 7/21 Register now at Twisted Spine in Brooklyn, NY! The official launch! Hang out with me, Nat Cassidy, Clay McLeod Chapman, Nicky Gonzalez, Nicholas Kaufmann, Brian Keene, John Langan, Victor LaValle, CJ Leede, Tanya Pell, Mary SanGiovanni, and Tony Tremblay! Get your tickets now!

Wherever there is losing, Drake is there

Joy@joybella.blacksky.app · 2w ago

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And in a few years, when we feel the effects of this loss of brain power, these people will say it was immigrants who cut off America’s nose to spite our face. Not them. Guaranteed.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w ago

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

@colsonwhitehead.com's newest book is dedicated to New York City. Watch more from @todayshow.com www.today.com/video/colson...

Colson Whitehead Talks New Book, Unusual Writing Process, More

Bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead sits down with TODAY’s Craig Melvin to talk about the release of the third book in his acclaimed Harlem crime trilogy, “Cool Machine," op...

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Every sentence of Greg’s post is the absolute truth.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 3w ago

Trump is a dirty fascist liar. Don't believe or spread his bullshit. Wanna protect your vote? Make sure you're registered RIGHT FUCKEN NOW and share the link with everyone you know. vote.org

Yes.

Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 3w ago

*gently grabs your face* listen to me LISTEN TO ME y'all need to start buying the rights to Horror books written by women instead of trolling Reddit for scraps of creepypasta. There are SO MANY BOOKS that would make great movies just sitting there, complete with PLOTS and THEMES and CHARACTER ARCS.

My mayor does not miss.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

We're just doing fucking roadside executions now.

LAL@lindli.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch

Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.

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This dirty racist makes me sick. This imagery tells people to target their local Chinese restaurants. Miserable hatemongering bigot.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4w ago

Marsha Blackburn's new ad is so racist that it makes me wonder if mainstream Republicans could have gotten away with something like this back in the 1980s or 90s.

They should’ve learned from that game where he watched the Knicks and they lost. This dude has the jinx stink all over him.

Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 4w ago

“It was cosmic payback for a club that hoped to benefit from a president who wanted to strongarm Team USA into the quarterfinals and found out that sports can resist even an autocrat’s attempts to stack the deck,” writes Inquirer columnist Mike Sielski.

It is absolutely absurd that these shenanigans are acceptable from anyone holding public office. It was derelict when Feinstein's staff was propping her up and it's derelict coming from McConnell's office, too. The culture of the Senate needs SIGNIFICANT overhaul. Just shameful and broken.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · last mo.

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new metaphor just dropped

10 transgender athletes out of more than half a million on college teams. That’s it. A cadre of hateful, and deeply weird, wealthy people paid to get their bigotry approved by a corrupt conservative Supreme Court.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · last mo.

NCAA president Charlie Baker told Congress in 2024 that he was aware of only 10 transgender athletes out of more than half a million students on college teams. But despite the small numbers, the issue has taken on outsized importance.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

And nobody cares except us. I’m on like six unemployed black woman listservs, where everyone’s freaking out, and nobody’s like “I’m running on trying to get y’all jobs.” It’s like we’re being erased from American society.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

This was by design of course. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Yes.

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last mo.

I'll tell you one thing, any Democratic 2028 presidential candidate who says they're going to "restore balance" and not fire every last Trump appointee on every commission on their first day in office doesn't deserve a single primary vote

DON’T LOOK NOW would like a word.

Ricky Fontaine@officialblee.blacksky.app · last mo.

I cringe at sex scenes in movies. I have never watched a sex scene that was actually imperative to the story. It always makes me feel like the producer is working out some sort of fetish.

Watched TENDER MERCIES for the first time. Spectacular magic. The film is as subdued as its characters, rich with understated emotion. People living in the aftermath of life shattering losses, but somehow they must keep living. Shoutout to @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social for the recommendation!

Weekend read is this graphic novel adaptation of Robert Bloch’s story, HELL ON EARTH. (Originally published in Weird Tales, 1942.) A writer gets a job to help raise a demon. Don’t think it’ll work out. Art by Keith Giffen. Written by Robert Loren Fleming. Cover painting by Bill Sienkiewicz

Oh shit he’s delivering (Personally really impressed that part of it is going towards HRT research broadly, which suggests this will have impacts beyond new york)

Zohran Mamdani Launches $15 Million Trans Care Investment: “New York City Is Stepping Up”

The funding comes amid a federal battle over gender-affirming care.

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“I run the protection program.” That’s probably the most honest thing this worthless man has ever said in his career. In the midterms, let’s prove him right. Investigate them all! Then convict them.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last mo.

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.